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Shands HealthCare provides a full spectrum of clinical services and preventative health care. From annual exams, physicals, and general practice to complex, specialized services, our medical staff and physicians are recognized among the worlds' best.

Women and Family Medical Services:

  • Obstetrics
  • Gynecology
  • Pediatrics
  • family medicine/Internal Medicine

Our family medicine offices are staffed by University of Florida physicians who offer a complete range of healthcare services for you and your family at convenient locations throughout Gainesville and the surrounding area. With a family physician, you’ll have a doctor you can count on for the care you need. Should you require more specialized medical attention, your family physician will help to coordinate your care with the appropriate specialists within Shands at University of Florida.

Family Healthcare Services include:

  • General medical care to manage chronic illnesses such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, ostereoarthritis, thyroid problems and many more.
  • Women’s services such as gynecology and obstetrical care
  • Immunizations and school physicals
  • Health and wellness checkups
  • Screenings for cancer, heart disease, cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes
  • General dermatology and skin care
  • Lab tests such as EKGs and exercise stress tests
  • Preventive healthcare counseling
  • Counseling for anxiety and depression
  • Smoking cessation

Women’s Services
Shands AGH and Shands at the University of Florida are dedicated to providing the best in women’s health services. Our outpatient healthcare serves women at all stages in their lives, from adolescence to childbearing years through menopause.

Women’s health services include:

  • General gynecological care including pelvic exams, pap smears, breast exams, family planning and pregnancy testing
  • Prenatal and obstetrical care
  • Reproductive endocrinology and infertility
  • Gynecological cancer
  • Maternal Fetal Medicine

Women’s Services Clinics
The University of Florida Physicians at the Women's Health at Magnolia Parke provide outpatient healthcare for women of all ages and at all stages in their lives, from adolescence to childbearing years to menopause. We provide reproductive endocrinology/infertility, gynecology, obstetrics, well-women health and bone density testing. We also provides education guidance regarding nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices.

Information
For more information about women’s health services, please call the Shands HealthCare Consultation Center at 800-749-7424 of 352-265-8000.

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Overview
Our Maternal-Fetal medical experts offer obstetrical care for women with pregnancies that are complicated by maternal disease, such as diabetes or hypertension, or any problem with the fetus, such as congenital abnormalities. We are specialists not only in diagnostic techniques, but also in complicated surgeries for both the mother and the fetus.

Range of Care
We offer a full range of high-risk obstetrical services for both the high-risk pregnant patient and fetal complications. Additional comprehensive obstetrical ultrasound and prenatal diagnostic services are available in our neo-natal intensive care unit at Shands at UF.

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Additional Medical Information

Gynecology

Obstetrics

Gynecologic Cancer

Menopause

Hormone Replacement Therapy

Amniocentesis

Uterine Balloon Therapy

Tension-free Vaginal Tape